You dig vista?

[Maximilian]

Im liking it so far, its definately faster than XP was, the games folder is a nice addition, aeros a decent change, and theres cleartype everywhere! Even on firefox.

So far ive came accross two games that wouldnt run and fixed both problems relatively easily. Homeworld 2 wouldnt run, a driver update never fixed it, but guess what did.... compatability mode! It actually frickin worked, amazing. C&C 3 wouldnt start until updated, minor problem.

Its like XP but faster and prettier and with built in chess! Yeah no more lame checkers. Tells me the weather and temperature outside with that sidebar thing, seems that theres a lot more that can be done with that, its all for download too. Ive only had vista for like 4 hours so ill reserve a final judgement, but so far im digging it, its pretty sweet! This is vista ultimate 64 bit edition btw. I see no point in staying with 32 bit.

 

[Stumps]

runs like a champion on my rig, I've tried plenty of games, old and new and haven't had any issues yet with it, however that is on my primary rig.

On my other rigs which have Nvidia hardware in them Vista sucks donkey balls...poor performance and horrid stability....I wish Nivida would get their act together with drivers, especially considering how well ATI's perform in vista.

 

[nanaki333]

i'm finding new bugs... errr.. features every day. yesterday was my favorite with media player just kinda stopping what it was doing. not hanging up or anything, just stopping the video playback. then not closing in task manager. the program closed, but it was still listed in the processes. couldn't open any other media til i rebooted. started working after the 3rd reboot and didn't hang up anymore.

 

[bucwylde23]

I love Vista.

 

[Pabster]

Should add an option "I've never used it but I'm going to vote that it sucks anyway"

Vista rocks, no doubt about it. Aside from a few driver issues (to be expected with any new OS release) it has been great. XP is just a distant memory.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: Pabster
Should add an option "I've never used it but I'm going to vote that it sucks anyway"

Vista rocks, no doubt about it. Aside from a few driver issues (to be expected with any new OS release) it has been great. XP is just a distant memory.

I'm on XP here at work and HATE IT.

I'd love to try this computer out on Vista, though.Quad core Xeon X5355 2.66 GHz processors, 16 GB of RAM, 2x500 GB and nVidia Quadro FX4500.

 

[Maximilian]

I think Vista is to XP as 98SE was to 95, samey but better.

Now for a test... will simcity 2000 run on vista 64? I dont know! Ill find out in a few minutes, i was surprised to find some people apparently had c&c red alert 1 working, so maybe theres hope for sc2k

2 minutes later --> No it dosent work. "the version of this file is not compatabile with yada yada 32 bit 64 bit somthing etc"

Oh well, simcity 2000 fans, maybe they will recode it in 32 bit or release a new version or somthing. That was a sweet lil game.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: chrisg22
I'd love to try this computer out on Vista, though.Quad core Xeon X5355 2.66 GHz processors, 16 GB of RAM, 2x500 GB and nVidia Quadro FX4500.

:shocked:

Vista 64 would run like butter on that setup.

 

[StopSign]

Vista Ultimate roxxors my soxxors!

 

[Noema]

I voted 'Hell yeah, Vista rocks', but what about the 'Vista is great, but I'm waiting for SP1' option?

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Soviet


Now for a test... will simcity 2000 run on vista 64? I dont know! Ill find out in a few minutes, i was surprised to find some people apparently had c&c red alert 1 working, so maybe theres hope for sc2k

2 minutes later --> No it dosent work. "the version of this file is not compatabile with yada yada 32 bit 64 bit somthing etc"

Oh well, simcity 2000 fans, maybe they will recode it in 32 bit or release a new version or somthing. That was a sweet lil game.

Is that the DOS version? Because that one should run under DOS Box.

Or you could use Virtual PC 07 in it, install Win98SE, and run SC2000 inside it if you are trying to run the Win9x version.

Virtualization technology has gone such a long way that I think that compatibility problems will be a thing of the past very soon. Why, I just installed Win 3.1 on Virtual PC 97 (from my 13 year old floppies ) last night.

 

[nweaver]

need an option "Vista, what's that?" or "Vista, don't really care"

I don't like Vista, I don't hate Vista, actually, I don't use Vista...in fact, I barely use Windows

 

[ksaajasto]

who would say that vista sucks??????? WHYY????? its so much better

 

[Linflas]

Actually I was meh until I really started to use it. There are some improvements that I have been waiting for since Windows 95. Simple little things like renaming a folder in a directory containing a folder with the same name gives you the option to merge them and if there are duplicate named items inside the folder it gives the option to automatically give them a different name for all the duplicates that exist. Little things like that that I wasn't even aware of until I really started to work with it at more than a superficial level are really changing my original opinion of Vista.

 

[Ausm]

I have had only minor compatibility problems with some games and a pr0n viewer other then that I have been very happy so far.


Ausm

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: nweaver
need an option "Vista, what's that?" or "Vista, don't really care"

I don't like Vista, I don't hate Vista, actually, I don't use Vista...in fact, I barely use Windows

Well thats something we can work on then huh We're all friends here! All you need to do is buy a copy of windows, thats all, just buy it, you dont have to install it right away, thats step 2 of the windows vista acceptance program.

Originally posted by: Noema
Is that the DOS version? Because that one should run under DOS Box.

Or you could use Virtual PC 97 in it, install Win98SE, and run SC2000 inside it if you are trying to run the Win9x version.

Virtualization technology has gone such a long way that I think that compatibility problems will be a thing of the past very soon. Why, I just installed Win 3.1 on Virtual PC 97 (from my 13 year old floppies ) last night.

I dont know i downloaded it from a random site. I have an opty 170 which apparently dosent support virtulization. Not that i would know how to work it anyways Sounds great though, dual boot always ends up a mess, dosbox is supposedly difficult to use so a sort of mini windows 98 inside vista would be nice.

 

[Arkaign]

Have it, boot into it very little. Would like a poll option of 'indifferent'

 

[fierydemise]

I think an indifferent/I don't know option, that said I love Vista, yes there are some little compatibility problems here and there (VLC for example) but overall very nice.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Soviet
I dont know i downloaded it from a random site. I have an opty 170 which apparently dosent support virtulization. Not that i would know how to work it anyways Sounds great though, dual boot always ends up a mess, dosbox is supposedly difficult to use so a sort of mini windows 98 inside vista would be nice.

If you have Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate you can install Virtual PC 2007 which will allow you to do that. And you don't need a processor with Virtualization technology.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Soviet

I dont know i downloaded it from a random site. I have an opty 170 which apparently dosent support virtulization. Not that i would know how to work it anyways Sounds great though, dual boot always ends up a mess, dosbox is supposedly difficult to use so a sort of mini windows 98 inside vista would be nice.

You don't need hardware support for virtualization. Sure, it's nice, but you can run it via software just fine. It's just emulation, really.

You can try both Microsoft's Virtual PC 07 and VM Ware
...they are both easy to install and run...I suggest you give the a shot.

If my Athlon 64 3200+ can handle it, surely your Opteron can.

And both also run under XP (and VM Ware also runs under Linux)

 

[Noema]

And by the way, DOSBox is not difficult to use...at all Soviet, and it opens up literally hundreds of old DOS games which will not run properly on modern hardware at all.

It's just a matter of mounting the directory that DOSBox will recognize as 'C:', and that's achieved by a simple command: mount c [name of directory] , as in

mount c d:\dosgames

And now [dosgames] is your 'C' drive inside Dosbox.

Just like that. And you can press CTRL+F11 or CTRL+F12 to decrease or increase CPU cycles as needed.

That's all there is to it, really.

Give it a shot!

Emulation is the future. Embrace it

 

[Maximilian]

Awsome, downloading VPC2007 now ta for the advice.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: Pabster
Should add an option "I've never used it but I'm going to vote that it sucks anyway"

Vista rocks, no doubt about it. Aside from a few driver issues (to be expected with any new OS release) it has been great. XP is just a distant memory.

:thumbsup:

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: InlineFive

Originally posted by: Soviet
I dont know i downloaded it from a random site. I have an opty 170 which apparently dosent support virtulization. Not that i would know how to work it anyways Sounds great though, dual boot always ends up a mess, dosbox is supposedly difficult to use so a sort of mini windows 98 inside vista would be nice.

If you have Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate you can install Virtual PC 2007 which will allow you to do that. And you don't need a processor with Virtualization technology.

I read that it doesn't work on vista home premium, but I installed it on my system with home premium and it ran just fine.. whatever that means

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: ksaajasto
who would say that vista sucks??????? WHYY????? its so much better

all depends on your needs and requirements.

Doesn't fit mine. Why should I use it or like it?

Just today I was helping a co-worker with some problems. He's a friggin admin on his computer and he can't even do ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew?

WTF?

Had to disable network connection (and then click "yes" i want to do this action), then re-enable network connection (and then click ANOTHER "yes" I want to do this action) and finally he was up and running again.

Is this sort of bullsh!t supposed to make me excited about running Vista?

After I was done there I went back to the safe comforts of my Linux box where it doesn't treat me like a bloody idiot when I do things.